Benny Gantz Quotes

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

Moreover, war has become a thing potentially so terrible and destructive that it should have been the common aim of statesmen to put an end to it forever.

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

The main force used in the evolving world of humanity has hitherto been applied in the form of war.

If peace should break out, what are we going to do with all these weapons.

The campaign we are launching today is dedicated to peace through preparedness.

It’s not a very nice solution, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war

We want no war. We’ll have no war.

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

The demilitarization of Europe—where large swaths of the general public and political class are averse to military force and the risks that go with it—has gone from the blessing of the 20th century to an impediment to achieving real security and lasting peace in the 21st.

We don't need military weapons in our society. We're not supposed to be at war with one another.

I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.

Let him who desires peace prepare for war.

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong.

Warmaking doesn't stop warmaking. If it did, our problems would have stopped millennia ago.

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I think war should be illegal.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

If we don't end war, war will end us.

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace.

We must strive to restrain the destructive force of war, while recognizing its inexorable necessities